3D-Printed Flexible Wings With Metamaterial Functionalities

Authors

Anastasiia Krushynska¹ , Igor Zhilyaev² , Nitesh Anerao¹ , Cihat Yilmaz³ , Mostafa Ranjbar³

1. University of Groningen, the Netherlands
2. University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
3. TC Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Conference / event

15th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2021, September 2021 (New York, United States)

Poster summary

Insects flapping flight has been inspiring generations of scientists to understand its peculiarities and, since recently, to develop maneuverable flying micro vehicles. Full-field modeling and detailed experiments have unveiled key mechanisms of flight dynamics, flow, and noise generation around wings and enabled practical realizations of artificial flying devices. Here, we propose the metamaterial-based design of a flapping wing and an optimization method to control flight characteristics through variations of geometric parameters. The successful experimental validation of 3D-printed samples suggests that our design is promising for additively manufactured flapping-wing-based flying robots.

Keywords

Flexible wing, Metamaterial, 3D-printing, Pattern, Aerodynamics

Research areas

Material Sciences, Mechanical Engineering

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2022 Krushynska et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.